French Bleu Cheese Chicken

I made this French Bleu Cheese Chicken recipe last night. It was absolutely delicious.

Much is happening at the Digital Dojo these days. The garden is kickin out some rad vegies and fruits. I picked some beautiful black berries for the meal and lots of herbs and tomatoes for the citronette-based salad. The plums are delightful right now and apricots coming soon. Lots of cucumbers and zucchini. We are already trading with the neighbors.

Here's a video from About.com (who knew?) for the chicken (I used chicken broth because that was all we had):



I had to mess with the embed to get it to fit, but i love having found this video recipe.

Videoblogging Course Next Weekend in Santa Barabara

Video Blogging 101
with Markus Sandy

Saturday, April 19
10 am-12:30 pm

The Santa Barbara Channels
414 East Carrillo Street

Create your own videoblog, and promote you and your production on the Web. The workshop covers video compression and publishing for the Internet, video hosting services, posting video to a blog, cool videoblogging tips, RSS feeds, aggregators, social networking, and rights and responsibilities.

$10 members/$20 nonmembers
Limited to first 20 participants who pay!
RSVP to lisa@sbchannels.tv

The Santa Barbara Channels
414 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, California 93101
805-963-3893 (voice)
805-962-3703 (fax)
www.sbchannels.tv
info@sbchannels.tv

Super Happy Vlog House II

Lan just iChatted and said that a group of OC'ers had gotten together recently and been thinking how great it would be to have another Super Happy Vlog House here at the Dojo. Nuff said. It's set for the weekend of Feb 16th. Feel free to come by anytime that weekend from Fri-Sun. Come and make video or spiff up your vlog. Beginners to advanced. Photography and podcasting/audio buffs too, plus geeks and nerds of all kinds. Rooms and couches are available, plus camping and RV spots. All are welcome. Pot luck. Free, but please RSVP so we can plan. Pool, spa, bbq, firepit, bathrooms, wireless, kitchen, large meeting room with projector.

Update: I made some minor changes on the wiki to reflect this year's date. Have at it and make it your own.

Update #2: While a Super Happy Vlog House is generally a fairly unstructured event, we do have some planned activities for those that are interested. Here is a general outline of some times and events for Saturday, Feb 16th:

• 8am-10am: coffee, breakfast, pre-day organizing


• 10am-12am: workshop: intro to videoblogging


• 12pm-2pm: photo/video walk in ventura river preserve, lunch, discussions


• 2pm-4pm: workshop: setting up your own videoblog show, content, tools, audience, statistics and more


• 4pm-6pm: siesta, work on a video, take a swim in the pool or spa, drinks, snacks, music, one-on-one time


• 6pm-7pm: potluck dinner/bbq, open source music


• 7pm-9pm: special live, mixed video and music performance and discussion


• 9pm-11pm: vlog screenings and discussions


• 11pm-9am: whatever, it's a sleep over (or work on a video all night), roasting marshmallows, stuff like that.


• 9am sunday: coffee and breakfast

Digital Dojo Ojai in Winter

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We treated ourselves to a new camera for the holiday season. Here are some scenes from around the dojo, just before the rains started last week.

LA Drupal Camp

It's official! We're organizing a Drupal Camp for LA. The dates are set for September 8-9 and I'm told that AOL will be hosting the event! Too cool. Check out LADrupal.org for more info. Also, check out this great post on organizing a camp by our lead organizer Chrystal Willams. Now we need a logo too. Here's one I found on Flickr by thinkhive.

More Drupal: if you're into Drupal and love independent media, please check out tools.ourmedia.org and join in on all the fun.

Biker Madness

We're really looking forward to Super Happy VLOG House. A number of people are expected, and we're getting excited! Although we encourage everyone to stay for the whole event, part-timers are welcome. One group we're always happy to see is a merry band of bikers (that's road bikers, people, as in bicycles) who regularly stop here at the Ojai Digital Dojo, as a sort of half-way point on their frequent centinniels. Yes, that's 100 miles, people! Perhaps they'll give interviews!

Super Happy Vlog House

March 31st - April 1st, 2007. A vlogothon! 24 hours of videoblogging! All are welcome. Time to get that next videoblogging project started. Or finished! Come, work, learn, teach and play with other vloggers at the Ojai Digital Dojo. Find out all about it on the wiki. Just add your own name and ideas. It's free! Need help? Contact us directly at (805)640-7447 or email us. Or just leave a comment here on this vlog.

Ok, so it seems that every time I try to type the name of this event, I type the word supper instead of super. I just guess that means will have to have some good eats too! :)

Mexican Breakfast - Made With Love

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Alicia made me a great breakfast the other morning. One of the most important ingrediants is love.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: alicia, ojai, digitaldojo, apperceptions, breakfast, love

A Brief Visit

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Do you pay attention to animal signs? Lately, there have been a number of sign involving birds of prey. The other day my wife an i were relaxing in the dojo when suddenly a friend dropped by for a minute. It's always good to have the proper tools handy and ready to go. I can't tell how long it seemed to take to reach the few inches to my camera...

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: apperceptions, digitaldojo, falcon, animal sign. ojai

Node101::Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico

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Just across the border is the Mexican state of Baja California Norte. South of that is another one of Mexico's 31 states: Baja California Sur. Just south of that border is the town of Guerrero Negro. There are hugh salt processing facilites there. And ecoturism with the whales January-March. There were lots of Internet Cafes, as they call them down there. There is often no coffee and no wireless. These guys were nice enough to let me hookup my laptop. The place was defintely a Node. Lots of folks stop by and use the half dozen computers. There is a great feeling about the place. Lots of laughter. It's simple and bare, but there is a warmth that comes from the people there. No one spoke english, but I was able to show them the Spanish version of freevlog and they got all excited. I left them with a small donation towards small shop. It's hard to imagine how they keep the place running at 16 pesos / hour (that's less than $1.50/hour), but they do. I asked the guy who was running the place what motivated him. Luckily someone who could translate had just walked in. The next morning, I met a guy from Canada there checking his email. It was a great place. And you can get the best food all up and down the street! I love Baja.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: digitaldojo, node101

Mexico Maddness

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We made back home at last! It feels so good here. I needed this. Been too long. Ju know?

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: méxico

ACM Western Region Conference 2006

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We're looking forward to helping podcast and videoblog this weekend's upcoming conference for the Alliance for Community Media in San Jose. Dave, JD, Ann Theis and I are leading a videoblogging workshop on Saturday afternoon and the whole Outhink team is volunteering to help record the action at the event.? Looks like this is going to be both an interesting and fun event.

Techonrati tag: acmwest2006